Women’s Blues: Memphis Minnie, Part 2
In this concluding post, Julia Simon reads Memphis Minnie’s lyrics and probes why she is, seemingly, a self-consciously anomalous figure in the history of the blues.
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In this concluding post, Julia Simon reads Memphis Minnie’s lyrics and probes why she is, seemingly, a self-consciously anomalous figure in the history of the blues.
In this first of two posts, Julia Simon examines the unheralded achievements, images, and wide-ranging guitar techniques of Memphis Minnie (Lizzie Douglas).